Apple Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting

Apple Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting with real apple chunks, a smooth and creamy frosting and all of your favorite fall flavors wrapped into one. This easy cake is one of our favorites!

If you haven’t noticed, I love APPLE CAKES. I’ve shared a few of my favoites on the blog already, including this delicious Caramel Apple Bundt Cake and my Grandma’s Fresh Apple Cake — both of which are total winners. But one of the things this Apple Spice Cake has that those recipes do not is a fantastic frosting!

Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting that pairs perfectly with the fall flavors in this cake.

I LOVE serving delicious, seasonal cakes like this all throughout the fall and holiday seasons. This Apple Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting is the perfect cake for a party, baby shower/bridal shower, or just for dinner with friends.

Or, if you love to bake as much as I do, make this on a whim and send it with your husband to work 🙂 .

I love to send my leftover baked goods to people. I get joy from baking them and then I’m not tempted by them sitting on my kitchen counter begging me to eat the entire pan.

Apple Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting with real apple chunks, a smooth and creamy frosting and all of your favorite fall flavors wrapped into one. This easy cake is one of our favorites!

In a small skillet, melt 2 tablespoons of the butter over medium-high heat until the butter starts to bubble.

Add the peeled and chopped apples, 2 tablespoons of brown sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice and cook, tossing occasionally, until the apples start to soften and the sugar mixture thickens, about 3-5 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.

In a large mixing bowl add the remaining 1 cup of butter, 3/4 cup brown sugar, and granulated sugar, and beat until light and fluffy (about 3 minutes), scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl as you go.

Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing after each addition. Stir in vanilla.

Hi Kelli, I haven’t tried that but I think it would work! If your going to dump them out to make a layered cake, I would advise putting parchment paper in the bottom of the pan! I would love to know how it turned out!

The recipe states “1 cup 2 sticks + 2 tbsp butter”..but in the intructions it says to add the remaining 1 cupof butter(when making the cake). So is it 2 sticks or 4 sticks of butter in the cake mix? Thanks!

I made this lovely cake tonight (end of August) and starting to feel like fall….got rave reviews from my family. We live in Minnesota, where a lot of apple varieties are developed here at the University of Minnesota. I used Honey Crisp apples which is our favorite, and dark brown sugar for that extra punch of flavor from the Molasses- fantastic!!! I absolutely recommend this cake recipe to anyone who loves apples!!!

I tasted the batter before even finishing and was AMAZING. I made this for my grandmother’s birthday and she hasn’t had it since her mom passed away. She said it was just like her mom used to make, it was so moist and yummy, I loved it! The only downfall to me was maybe a little too much cream cheese in the icing but I am not a big fan of cream cheese. Thanks so much!